An announcement was made regarding whose mosque we were visiting and instantly my eyebrows furrowed and an invisible question-mark floated above my head. Five more confused faces scrunched up down the line and finally someone said what we were all thinking, "This is Muhammad Ali's mosque? But, not the boxer, right?"
Muhammad Ali Pasha, considered by many to be the founder of modern Egypt, ruled the country in combination with his family and descendants for 147 years. He died in 1849 and was buried in the mosque he commissioned in the Citadel of Cairo.
If you look closely you can see two of the three Giza pyramids through the dense smog.
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